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A small and simple-looking city in the clouds.

Preview

Isle of Arrows knows how to stop you getting comfortable in a tower defence game

And it has a point.

Sept. 21, 2022 Robert Purchese

Arcade Paradise

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Sept. 16, 2022 Robert Purchese

New Overwatch hero Kiriko, stands in the middle a screen with a battle pass tier in a line beneath her.

Feature

How the Overwatch 2 battle pass works, and everything you need to know about it

Mei I?

Sept. 15, 2022 Robert Purchese

Muscled Overwatch 2 hero Junker Queen shrugs to the camera.

News

The last day of Overwatch 1 will be 2nd October, Blizzard confirms

Mercy.

Sept. 15, 2022 Robert Purchese

A young nurse lady carries a sleeping child on her back.

News

Octopath Traveler 2 announced for Nintendo Switch

Also coming to Steam, PS4, PS5.

Sept. 13, 2022 Robert Purchese

Announcing the Pub Quiz, open to all showcomers

Blog

EGX | Announcing the Pub Quiz, open to all showcomers

Running Friday and Saturday evenings at the show itself.

Sept. 12, 2022 Robert Purchese

A smiling purple radio illustration for the Weekly podcast show.

Podcast

Weekly | Why Splatoon 3 wasn't quite an Essential but still splats

Plus: A Plague Tale: Requiem, a Cyberpunk 2077 expansion, and more.

Sept. 12, 2022 Robert Purchese

Immortality screenshot, characters arguing around a table

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Sept. 9, 2022 Robert Purchese

Ken and Roberta Williams inside a wooden cockpit of a boat. Ken is looking particularly fetching in his captain's hat and moustache.

Podcast

Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams

Live from their boat.

Sept. 8, 2022 Robert Purchese

A blood-spattered face of a young woman, with a determined expression, in front of the young face of a boy, mostly hidden in shadow, with a black-veined infection spreading across his face.

Preview

A Plague Tale: Requiem is as stunning as it is stressful

Did Amicia?

Sept. 8, 2022 Robert Purchese

A smiling purple radio illustration for the Weekly podcast show.

Podcast

Weekly | All the goss from Gamescom, and why Immortality dazzles

Das ist super!

Sept. 5, 2022 Robert Purchese

A row of cold storage morgue vaults.

Feature

The unexpected dignity of morgues

Even the especially creepy ones.

Sept. 3, 2022 Robert Purchese

What we've been playing

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Sept. 2, 2022 Robert Purchese

A colourful cover of Fighting Fantasy book Warlock of Firetop Mountain, with the aforementioned warlock wreathed in fire from a spell they're casting.

Feature

Without Dungeons & Dragons, Fighting Fantasy might never have existed

Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson on writing a phenomenon.

Sept. 1, 2022 Robert Purchese

A quartered screen with three video call streams in it. Bertie is in one, holding up a Fighting Fantasy book. In the others are Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, the creators of Fighting Fantasy.

Podcast

The story of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy

Good choice.

Aug. 29, 2022 Robert Purchese

A spaceship flies around what looks like a warp gate, surrounded by asteroids. There's a browny, orange hue to the scene.

Feature

Preview & Interview | The scale in Homeworld 3 is tremendous - it's a space RTS for the James Webb era

And creator Rob Cunningham tells us all about it.

Aug. 26, 2022 Robert Purchese

What we've been playing

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Aug. 26, 2022 Robert Purchese

A glitchy, turquoise and red-coloured image of a man with echoes of himself around.

News

Use déjà vu to bridge realities in hard sci-fi psychological thriller The Gap

Nothing to do with the clothes store.

Aug. 24, 2022 Robert Purchese

A swirling, eye-like maelstrom of colour behind a horned and cloaked figure standing atop a castle's parapet.

News

Talking to the former Fallout 76 lead about their new studio and occult RPG Wyrdsong

Something Wicked this way comes.

Aug. 23, 2022 Robert Purchese

Gamescom 2022 Opening Night Live

Feature

Live report | Gamescom 2022 Opening Night Live

A Keighley good time.

Aug. 23, 2022 Robert Purchese

A promotional image for the Netflix Sandman series. The character Dream stands on a staircase that spirals into the clouds, back turned, with a raven on his shoulder. He is dressed, as always, all in black.

Feature

Off-Topic | Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly

It was Dreamy.

Aug. 23, 2022 Robert Purchese

A quartered screen for a podcast video call. Three of the windows have people in: Bertie, Donlan and Victoria Kennedy. They're all beaming - clearly having a tremendous amount of fun.

Podcast

Weekly | Rollerdrome is wheely, wheely good

Plus: We Are OFK! Sea of Thieves three years on! And more.

Aug. 22, 2022 Robert Purchese

A mouse lady sits on a large backpack, holding a flaming torch. In the darkness around her are enemies coming for her loot.

Feature

How do you make an entire game about bags? Backpack Hero: "Hold my potion"

Clutch play.

Aug. 20, 2022 Robert Purchese

Rod Land

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Aug. 19, 2022 Robert Purchese

Bertie, Christian Donlan and Ed Nightingale are on a video podcast call together, and they're all laughing, having a jolly good time.

Podcast

Weekly | Arcade Paradise is something special

Plus: Two-Point Campus! Cult of the Lamb! And more.

Aug. 15, 2022 Robert Purchese